Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-02-12
A HUGE STRIKE.
Fifty Thousand Laborers Unite
in One Great Common
Cause.
A Grand Mass Meeting If the Men and
Their Friends.
Labor Trou bles.

Labor Troubles.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2T-By noon TO-DAY, II the
| programme adopted last night is carried out
no work will be done on the water fronts OF
New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City. Nearly
5O,eOO men will be more or less involved. They
will include longshoremen, grain handlers,
coal beavers, grain trimmers, bag sewers,
canal boatmen, tug bOatmen, lighter men and
| every description of workingmen. If this war
is declared no vessel will be able TO leave port,
| as the pilots viii be drawn into the struggle.
Their interests are with the workmen and it is
alleged that out of sympathy, if for no other
reason, they Will refuse to take out the ships.
Already steamship companies have begun to
feel IT," effects Of tie trouble and now that the
strike =; made general the difficulty will be
much greater. The idea of the executive board
of district assembly No. 40 is that only BY
general action can the demands OF the men be
enforced. The matter has been referred to
the general executive board of Knights of La
Dor aHu met with their sanction.
Twenty thousand men are now on strike
| coal shovelers, longshoremen, freight handlers
and men employed on the river front in almost
every capacity and the number is augmented
to close on 10000 b. strikers on the BROOKLYN
and Jersey shores. In consequence II is al
most impossible for anv of the steamers for
|
der went forth yesterday from the headquar
tiers of the LongshOremen's union, which was
backed by the Knights of Labor assembly No.
10 and this morning the men turned out
Tie Old Dominion line has got few men
working and at the headquarters of strikers IL
was reported at noon that number of the
green hands who were taken on Monday had
joined the strikers. The men are cOnsidera-
bly, elated at the favorable reports that the
walking delegates are bringing in. One dele
gate stalled that not a single steamer had been
able 10 take aregu!ar supply OF coal, and conse-
qucntlv would MT be able TO sail on the dav Of
appointment At the Cunard docks the Gal
lia could not be discharged because q majority
OF tie piece men turned out
The next move will be to get the engineers
on the tug boats to refuse to burn coal or tow
It In. Other labor organizations who are de-
pendent on the coal supply will be compelled
to quit work. The ferry boats are seriously
lnconvenlenced on account OF the lack Of coal.
No disturbance occurred up 10 noon. The
strikers believe the dispute will be settled be-
fore the end Of the third day.
The strike along the river front Of Brooklyn
also went into effect this morning. All the
men went out quietly, peaceably and deter
minedly Freight accumulated on the docks
ready for shipment, while several vessels were
waiting TO discharge cargoes.
At the Morgan company's dock pier IS, the
men went to work this morning, as the COM
pany agreed not to handle any boycotted
freight
The dockmaster had hard work to keep pace
with the demand, as much freight that had
been delayed in consequence of the boycott
and strike is now being moved. At the pro-
duce dock a steamer was got away at O'Clock
this morning. It should have sailed on Tues
day night The Pequot, Of the same line, ar
rived to-day, but could not be unloaded be-
cause the longshoremen had gone out There
Wara a IN har Of tn he
Portuguese, and with deck hands some cargo
was removed. In the Office of the dockmaster
II was stated that the company had got all the
coal it required for use of its steamers, and al
SO the men it needed to unload the Pequot.
On the dock were about twenty men at work,
but the scene was dull to that usually present.
ed on the arrival of a Providence boat and
when there are 800 or 400 men at work on
vessel which Is usually unoaded and loaded /
again. ready to sail again in a few hours. Sew
eral canal boats laden with coal were laid up
at the bulkheads, but there was no one to un-
load them.
An Anchor line steamer was docked. but no
attempt was made to unload her after the
passengers had debarked. Both piers 20 and
q, belonging to this company, were guarded |
by the police. At pier 3, North river, there |
were vessels waiting to have their freight |
moved, but no men could be procured to do |
the work.
1t is expected that the Transatlantic steam |
ers due out Saturday will not be able TO sail |
on account Of their having no means Of get |
ting the vessels coal supply aboard. The |
White Star liner Brittanic was to have left |
port this morning, but she was unable to get |
her complement of coal and was detained |
The State of Georgia. of the State line. and |
the Suevia, of the Hamburg line, the indie |
pendent, of the Florio Rubotino line to Italy, |
were all detained by the strike. The Gala |
of the Cunard line, the Devonia, of the |
Anchor line, the La BOurgoyue for Havre, the |
w. A. Schlotten for Amsterdam, the Penn |
land. of the Red Star line are moored for sail |
ing on Saturday, but will probably not be able |
to DO so unless the strike is settled. |
The coastwise and southern bound steamers |
due out to -dav. and the Trinidad for Bermuda. |
the CITY of Columbus for Flord a ports, the |
City of Columbia for Charleston and Southern |
ports, and the Agiers for Galveston, were also |
delayed.
Tie Morgan line longshoremen who had |
twice struck and gone back, subsequently |
went out again on the order of ''beach walk |
er." The work of loading the steamer Al |
giers was discontinued Big piles of freight
are stacked up on the pier awaiting shipment.
About O'Clock this afternoon thirty Italians
were secured and put To work. The strikers
made no trouble beyond jeering at the Italians
The Helvetia, Of the National line. reached
here this afternoon and discharged passengers.
No attempt was made to unload freight At
the same pier score OF green hanCS were load
ing the Erin. A coal barge was alongs de and
the crew were filling the bunkers. The com.
pany hope to be able to clear the vessel by
high tide Friday. The French line people say
they have all the men they need. Four gangs
were loading coal on the La Bourgoyne and
three gangs were loading cargo at the three
hatches. The non-union men are of all nation
alites. A sufficient number OF men have been
obtained 70 work by the White Star line. They
will have the Brittanc ready to sail on Friday.
This VIII be one day late. The Wyoming ar
rived at the Guion docks at noon. Later in
the day nen%ere put at work unloading cargo